📝 AITA for telling my friend not to push my BF to quit his job

By According-Let9475 • Score: 6 • April 8, 2025 7:52 AM


Me (32F) and my BF (32M) live together and share all expenses. My boyfriend works in a restaurant for long hours (12 hours, 6 days a week) and has for a long time been unhappy with how little he gets paid. On the other hand he makes a good amount through tips. We have lately been thinking about buying a house so we've been trying to save up and thinking of getting a loan. I work 9-6 too, and all the money we make, we share. He has to also help his family. My friend, who often gets ideas of how to start new businesses, and mostly fails at following through, got this idea that she wanted to open a restaurant, and called my BF to ask if he wanted to join in on the venture (on the day that she was going to sign the lease), pressuring him to give an answer immediately. I got really pissed off that she did not tell me about this idea and ask to sit down with both of us so we can discuss like equal potential business partners if this is a good opportunity or not. She and her boyfriend both talked to me BF about this restaurant idea, although they lack the money to invest in it, and it is my understanding that they wanted more money and somebody to risk it with them. Mind you my BF complains about his job and wants to have his own restaurant one day but when we've talked about it and I've offered to get my mother to invest in this venture, he told me he wasn't ready. He also said the same thing to my friend, so he did not take her up on the business partners' offer. But when I called to ask her why she did not tell me about the idea she said my BF and her both want to quit their jobs and she didn't have to call me because this has nothing to do with me or her boyfriend. I yelled and her and now we're not speaking.

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